reed
Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in…Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
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Examples
17 sentencesMost bassoonists make their own reeds.
I need to buy a couple of clarinet reeds.
One of the reeds of my harmonica has gone flat.
Meaning
12 senses(countable)Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
Schilf, Ried, Rohr
тростни́кtrostník, камы́шkamýš
очере́тočerét, трости́наtrostýna, коми́шkomýš
(countable)Part of an aerophone musical instrument, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal, which vibrates to produce sound when air passes through it.
Rohrblatt, Blatt, Blättchen
язычо́кjazyčók
(countable)A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.
Coordinate term: sley
More meanings 9
(countable)The hollow stem of these plants.
Schilfrohr
тростни́кtrostník
(countable, historical)A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.
(uncountable)Reeding.
(countable, uncountable)A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
(countable, uncountable)Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
(countable, obsolete, poetic, uncountable)A missile weapon.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)A measuring rod.
A measuring rod.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)A Babylonian unit of measure the length of a reed, equal to half a nindan, or six cubits.
(Scotland, UK, dialectal)The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
- United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
- United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
- tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
- a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
Origin
From Middle English red, from Old English hrēod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud (“reed”),From Middle English red, from Old English hrēod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud (“reed”), of uncertain origin.
From Middle English rede (“abomasum”), from Old English rēada, from Proto-West Germanic *raudō.
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Forms
plural: reedsSynonyms
5 synonyms- United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920):John Reed
- United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902):Walter Reed
- a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it:vibrating reed
- a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed:beating-reed instrumentreed instrument
Word family
56 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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